Why we're not building a Gemini-locked cursor
Google shipped Magic Pointer last month — an AI cursor that watches your screen and answers questions about whatever you point at. It's genuinely good. A lot of people asked if it makes Oversite pointless.
Here's our honest read: Magic Pointer proved the idea. Pointing at your screen and talking to an AI about it is the right interaction. But the version Google shipped has a catch baked in — it only talks to Gemini, and your screen goes to Google's cloud to do it.
We think the interaction is too important to hand to one vendor.
So we adopted the good part — pointing as the way you say "this" to an AI — and refused the lock-in. With Oversite:
- You pick the AI. Claude, GPT, Gemini, or a model running locally on your own Mac. Oversite speaks MCP, the open protocol, so it isn't married to anyone's model.
- Your screen stays yours. Capture and on-device transcription happen on your machine. The only thing that ever leaves is the request you deliberately send to the model you chose.
- It remembers. Most AI cursors forget the second you close the tab. Oversite keeps an encrypted, searchable log of everything you've pointed at — because the context you build up is the whole point.
We're not trying to out-Google Google. We're building the version for people who don't want their cursor — or their screen, or their AI — owned by a single company.
Point at anything. Ask any AI. On your own machine.
That's the open cursor.